When the Bodleian Library opened in 1602, the library already held a manuscript copy of the Qur’an. Images from 80 important Arabic manuscripts and maps. 273 is a copy of Boethius’s De institutione musica likely from fifteenth-century Bologna. 842 is a collection of treatises on music from fifteenth-century England MS. The Bodleian has numerous sources of both ancient Greek and medieval Latin theory, as well as important sources for Hebrew, Arabic, and Persian writings on music. Outside the Western church tradition, there are also important sources of Byzantine chant of the eleventh to nineteenth centuries. 213, and an anthology of fifteenth-century English carols, including the ‘Agincourt Song’ ( MS. The medieval polyphony includes the famous source of fifteenth-century music by Dufay and others in MS. 579), a ninth-century French Sacramentary with additions from tenth-century England and the eleventh-century Winchester Troper ( MS. Among the library’s earliest musical liturgical manuscripts are the ‘Leofric Missal’ ( MS. The Bodleian has many medieval liturgical books, sacred and secular music fragments within other volumes, and treatises on music. Images from graduals, psalters and other manuscripts featuring musical notation. ĭigital Bodleian also includes the Ashmolean Museum’s Arthur Evans Papers, and post-1800 manuscripts from Oxford college libraries, including Christ Church's Lewis Carroll collection. The modern holdings (1801-) provide excellent sources for British political, diplomatic, social and economic history the politics, economics and social development of African and Commonwealth countries during the colonial and post-colonial period international development and international relations British literature science and medicine and art history and visual culture.Īround 50 modern manuscripts and archives from the Bodleian have been digitized to date, including Mary Shelley's Frankenstein drafts 30 volumes of William Godwin's diary an important album of photography by Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879) and T.E. The Bodleian holds one of the world’s largest and most wide-ranging collections of archives and manuscripts. Manuscripts and archives from the year 1801 to the present day.
Junius 1, “the Orrmulum”, a 12th century book of verse written in phonetic Middle English, and Exeter College’s MS 47, a psalter owned by both Elizabeth of York and Katherine of Aragon. Ashmole 1511, “the Ashmole bestiary”, a richly decorated early 13th century English bestiary MS. The priorities and interests of such collectors have determined the manuscripts surviving in the Bodleian as much as their medieval creators.ĭigitized items include MS. The 19th and early 20th centuries brought further opportunities for acquisitions, notably of books belonging to Francis Douce and Matteo Luigi Canonici. The collection was further enhanced by donations through the 17th and 18th centuries, such as those of William Laud, Sir Kenelm Digby, and Elias Ashmole. Many manuscripts originated from the dissolved monasteries of Great Britain.
Some were lost with the destruction of Duke Humfrey’s Library in the 16th century, but Sir Thomas Bodley's re-establishment of the university library in 1602 brought in more manuscripts from around the world than the medieval university itself possessed. The Bodleian’s collection of medieval manuscripts originates with the first books that the University of Oxford acquired. The Bodleian’s collections may also be visited via their image portal.Images from over 2,500 medieval manuscripts from the Bodleian and Oxford colleges, with 500 fully digitized items.
During this partnership, Artstor digitized thousands of illuminated leaves from Bodleian manuscripts through the 16th century, as well as selected 19th- and 20th- century manuscripts in the Medieval tradition. The library’s collaboration with Artstor was built on the foundation laid through that effort. The Bodleian has - with support from the Getty Trust - developed an electronic catalog of Medieval Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries. Collectively the Libraries hold more than 12 million printed items, over 80,000 e-journals and outstanding Special Collections, including rare books, maps, music, and Oriental materials, and they are a preeminent repository of Western Medieval manuscripts. The Bodleian Library, founded 400 years ago, belongs to the Bodleian Libraries group, which includes 28 other libraries at Oxford. The Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, have contributed more than 24,000 images of their outstanding collections, notably Medieval and Renaissance illuminated manuscripts, to the Artstor Digital Library.
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